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Co-evolution of End-User Developers and Systems in Multi-tiered Proxy Design Problems

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End-User Development (IS-EUD 2013)

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This paper aims at analyzing the category of multi-tiered proxy design problems, where end-user developers do not necessarily coincide with the actual end users of the system, but can be considered as end users’ proxies. This situation can be found in a variety of application domains, from home automation, where electricians defining home automation systems for energy saving are different from house occupants, to e-government, where administrative employees creating e-government services are different from citizens using those services. The analysis leads to the definition of a new interaction and co-evolution model, called ICE2, which, on the basis of the model discussed in a previous work, considers not only the case of end users that directly make their system evolve by means of end-user development activities, but also the case where a proxy figure is present, namely an expert in the application domain that creates and modifies software artifacts for others (the actual end users). Finally, a design approach is proposed, which aims at generalizing the solutions suggested in different application domains, and at sustaining the interaction and co-evolution processes that involve end users, end-user developers, and systems.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Daniela Fogli

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

    Antonio Piccinno

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  3. InterMedia, University of Oslo, Blindern, 0318, Oslo, Norway

    Anders Mørch

  4. University of California, 92697-3440, Irvine, CA, USA

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Fogli, D., Piccinno, A. (2013). Co-evolution of End-User Developers and Systems in Multi-tiered Proxy Design Problems. In: Dittrich, Y., Burnett, M., Mørch, A., Redmiles, D. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7897. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38706-7_12

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